virtually/practically impossible (=almost impossible ) Getting tickets for the concert is practically impossible. almost/nearly impossible He thought that winning would be almost impossible. adverbs absolutely impossible ( also utterly impossible formal ) It is absolutely impossible to drive in these conditions. render something impossible formal (=make something impossible ) The large number of prison guards rendered any escape impossible. make something impossible Heavy snow made travelling impossible. find something impossible He found it impossible to sleep because of the noise coming from next door. prove impossible (=be impossible because you have tried but not succeeded ) It proved impossible for the two sides to reach an agreement. become impossible As it became darker, it became impossible for the players to see the ball. COLLOCATIONS verbs seem impossible It seemed impossible that he would ever recover from the injury. ✗ Don’t say: It was a very impossible task. You say: It was an absolutely impossible task. Grammar Impossible is not used with ‘very’. impossibility / ɪmˌpɒsəˈbɪləti $ -ˌpɑː- / noun One hundred percent airline security is a practical impossibility. 3 DIFFICULT behaving in a very unreasonable and annoying way Oh, you’re just impossible! - impossibly adverb Some sales managers think selling abroad is impossibly difficult. His attitude is making life impossible for the rest of the team. Helen’s refusal to cooperate put me in an impossible position. Whatever we decided to do would upset someone. 2 DIFFICULT PROBLEM a situation that is impossible is one that you cannot deal with We were in an impossible situation. Such mental attitudes are difficult, if not impossible, to change.

Six months ago, peace seemed an impossible dream. It was physically impossible to get the fridge through the door. He was faced with a seemingly impossible task. It is difficult to find work these days, but for blind people it is virtually impossible. Members with young children often found it impossible to attend evening meetings.

S2 W2 adjective 1 IMPOSSIBLE something that is impossible cannot happen or be done OPP possible ‘I want to speak to Mr Franks.’ ‘I’m afraid that’s impossible.’ It’s impossible to be accurate about these things.

Possibly ≠ impossibly From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English impossible im‧pos‧si‧ble 1 / ɪmˈpɒsəb əl $ ɪmˈpɑː- / and the EU.Possibility ≠ impossibility the impossible possible Japan has agreed to divert some of its LNG cargoes to Europe in response to requests from the U.S. has recently approached other countries like Japan, asking that they reroute their gas supplies to Europe in the event of conflict. Gazprom, a Russian state-owned company, is deliberately trying to store and deliver as little as possible,” she said.Īs Reuters noted, the U.S. “A strong European Union cannot be so reliant on an energy supplier that threatens to start a war on our continent. “For the time being, we would be able to replace the Russian gas with LNG deliveries that we get from our friends all over the world,” von der Leyen said, according to Politico, adding that Europe should accelerate its investments into sustainable energy to become more independent from Russian gas exports. So, to replace that sum of volume that quickly is almost impossible.”Īl-Kaabi’s remarks come as the European Union agreed to impose a round of economic sanctions against Russia for recognizing two separatist-controlled regions of eastern Ukraine and moving Russian troops into those respective areas.Īlong with the EU’s actions, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that he would be stopping the certification of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia.Įarlier this month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted that the EU would be able to survive the winter without Russia’s gas.

There is no single country that can replace that kind of volume, there isn’t the capacity to do that from LNG,” al-Kaabi said at a gas conference in Doha. “Most of the LNG are tied to long-term contracts and destinations that are very clear. “Russia I think 30-40 percent of the supply to Europe.

Al-Kaabi said that the amount of divertable volumes that can be sent to Europe is only 10 to 15 percent, Reuters reported.

Saad al-Kaabi, Qatar’s minister of state for energy affairs, said that his country’s volumes are locked up in long-term contracts, a majority of which with Asian buyers. A Qatari energy official warned on Tuesday that neither his country or any other single country has the capacity to replace Russia’s gas supplies to Europe with liquified natural gas (LNG) if those exports are cut off due to Russia’s actions against Ukraine.

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